The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 53
Now that dicer painted the dice with poison, and said this to that dicer: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”
Who acts: dicer, us · What happens: paint, say, come, sir, let, play · To what, where: dice, this, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dicer, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 painted | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 dicer | det |
| 3 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dice | det |
| 6 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painted | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 poison | case |
| 8 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dicer | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dicer | det |
| 15 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 18 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sir | punct |
| 20 | sir | sir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Come | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Come | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 dice | case |
| 26 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | that dicer | the dice | now | with poison | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent dice=Destination with poison=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that dicer not said here | this | to that dicer | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sir in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | dice | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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